Wow – what surprising good news just landed in the “In Box”, from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. A sweet $22 million has been made available to increase healthy food in low to moderate-income under-served communities – rural, urban and suburban (… that’s everyone, right?) through the creation and expansion of healthy food retail outlets like grocery stores, farmers markets and co-ops. And get this – it also applies to food hubs — for packaging and distribution, so essential to local food. $22 million isn’t really so much, but it’s surprising how helpful $25,00 – $250,000 can be to a local food system getting part of the infrastructure paid for!

Our hero, Oran Hesterman of the Fair Food Network (in our film, Ground Operations) was one of a consortium of recipients in Michigan — who are getting $3 million to support the Michigan Good Food Fund, to connect local food production to retail outlets. There are a lot of entrepreneur farmers growing on those Detroit abandoned properties – I hope this helps them!

The Colorado Healthy Food Fund is leveraging their $800,00 to provide affordable financing to a full range of businesses in the food system. They’ll be making loans from $1,000-$250,000 to finance equipment, real estate, and working capital to start up and expand healthy food businesses. Amazing!!!

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The New Normal

This promo reel for The New Normal focuses on the caregivers, the young wives of combat veterans. Set amidst the lush landscapes of Hawaii, and fueled the
community’s spirit of Aloha, we will follow the Emmons family as they pursue their dream to build a community food forest for other veteran families, nourishing both
the people and the planet.